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MACHINE FOR FORMING BLANKS 03 ARTICLES FROM WIRE. No, 323,626. PatentedAug; 4, 1885.

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ihvirnn STATES PATENT Oriana.

MARSHALL L. BASSETT, OF \VEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE R.KELSEY, OF SAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR FORMING BLANKS OR ARTICLES FROM WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,626, dated August4,1885.

Application lilcd June 25, 1885.

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- new Improvement in Machines for Forming Blanks or Articles from \Vire;and I do here by declare the following, when taken in connection withaccompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which saiddrawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure l, a top or plan view of so much of a machine for makingbuckle-frames as is necessary for the illustration of my invention; Fig.2, a face view of the guidingblook, showing the several openings and thecutters adjacent thereto; Fi g. 3, a side view of the feeding-rolls,showing the several annular grooves corre sponding to the openingsthrough the guide block; Fig. 4, a side view, looking toward the benderand former, showing the several wires between them; Fig. 5, a bentbuckle-frame.

This invention relates to a device for bending articles made from wire,with special ref erence to the manufacture of buckle-frames.

In the manufacture of articles from wire a single run of wire isintroduced to the machine, cut to the required length and bent, oneoperation of the machine producing one single article or blank.

The object of my invention is to adaptsuch machines to the production ofseveral articles simultaneously; and it consists in the combination ofseveral parallel guides, each adapted to receive an independent run ofwire, with a feed adapted to act simultaneously upon the several runs ofwire so passing through the guides, with a cutter adapted to cut theseveral runs of wire delivered through said guides, and a bender andformer adapted to receive the cut portions of wire and bend them intothe required shape, as more fully hereinafter described.

In illustrating my invention I show it as in a machine for bendingframes for buckles of that class known as the Hartshorn buckle, one ofsuch blanks being shown in Fig. 5 full size.

A represents the guide-block, through which the wires are to be fed.Longitudinally through this block several openings to a a. a, (hererepresented as four,) are formed parallel to each other, each openingadapted to the particular size of wire to be fed to the machine and eachadapted to receive an independent run of wire.

B B represent a pair of rolls, having in their periphery annular groovesZ) corresponding to the longitudinal openings through the guide block A,each pair of grooves being adapted to receive a line of wire betweenthem, and so that by their revolution they will impart an advancingmovement to the wire, the revolution of the rolls being toward theguide-block. The movement of these rolls may be constant orintermittent. If intermittent the rotation is to an extent required forthe delivery of a single length of wire. If constant they are adapted toslide upon the wire after the given length shall have been delivered,both of such feeding devices being common and well kn own, except as tothe multiple grooves.

On the delivery face of the guide a cutter, O, is arranged to slidetoward and from the openings, it being attached to or made a part of asliding bar, D, to which reciprocating movement is imparted, so that asthe cutter advances it will pass over the ends of the several openingsthrough the guide-block, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 2, and out01f the several projecting wires. d, Fi 1, represents the upper of theseveral projecting wires.

E is the former, around which the wires so out are to be bent. It isarranged with its back in the plane of the several wires, as indicatedin Figs. 1 and 4. The shape of this former corresponds to the shape ofthe bends to be made in the wire-blanks.

F is a principal bender, arranged to reciprocate or move forward andback toward andfrom the former E, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 1.The wires as they enter pass between the former and the bender, so thatwhen the wires are cut the bender advances, and striking the severalwires turns their ends around the former and gives the initial bends,which bends are completed by the side benders Gr, the former and theseveral benders be ing adapted to act together to simultaneously bendthe several blanks of wire delivered and cut, as before described. Thusat a single op eration several blanks or articles are bent to therequired shape.

The former and benders which I have illustrated are the same as in themachines now in use for bending buckle-frames. To the benders areciprocating movement is imparted toward and from the former. Themechanism for such reciprocating movement is well known and does notrequire illustration in this application, it having no bearing upon theinvention.

I have illustrated the invention as applied to buckle-frames; but itwill be understood that the same advantage is attained in making otherarticles from wire-say, as staples, hooks, eyes, and the numerousarticles which are made from wire. I

By the invention the capacity of a single machine is increased to a verygreat extent.

I clain1 1. A machine for making articles from wire, consisting in aguide having two or more longitudinal openings in substantially the sameplane, through each of which openings an independent run of wire maypass, combined with a feed adapted to simultaneously force the severalruns of wire through the said several openings in the guide-block, acutter adapted to cut lengths of wire from said several runs sodelivered through the several openings in the guide-block, and aformerand bender arranged adjacent to the several runs of wire so deliveredthrough the several openings in the guide-block, subsantially asdescribed.

2. In a machine for forming buckle-frames, the combination of aguide-block constructed with several longitudinal openings adjacent toand parallel with each other, each of said openings adapted to receiveand guide an independent run of wire, a feed adapted to receive severalruns of wire and deliver the same to the several said openings in thesaid guideblock, a cutter arranged to cut lengths or blanks from saidseveral wires so delivered through said several guides, a former, E, inshape corresponding to the frame to be bent, a bender, F, said benderand former arranged to receive the several cut lengths of Wire betweenthem, and the supplemental benders G G upon opposite sides of saidformer, substantially as described.

MARSHALL L. BASSETT. YVitnesses:

LILLIAN D. KELsEY, JOHN E. EARLE.

